{"id":36106,"date":"2020-05-11T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36106"},"modified":"2020-05-10T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:16:52","slug":"prudence-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/prudence-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"prudence flint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quiet moments, domestic scenes, muted palettes. Sigh.<\/em> Lovely. These oil paintings are the work of Melbourne based painter Prudence Flint<\/a>. Who are these people, and what are they thinking about? I couldn’t find her artist statement, but I did find a really great interview she did with the University of Melbourne<\/a>, so I’ve pulled a few of my favorite bits:<\/p>\n

Initially I thought that, if I was going to be a painter<\/strong>, I\u2019d have to paint mountains and landscapes and important things like that. But in my first year at the VCA<\/a> the penny dropped and I started painting women. It was as if I realised that it was OK to paint the things I was obsessed with. That was huge for me \u2013 it was a really exciting time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Self-doubt is a big part of my work<\/strong>; all of those unpleasant emotions like shame and guilt and feeling like I don\u2019t deserve space. I\u2019ve learned to make friends with it now. Some people reconcile those things in real life but I tend to do it in my work.<\/em><\/p>\n

My main model is a friend of mine who\u2019s nearly 30.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve painted older women, but the minute you put an older woman in a painting, a bit of grey hair or whatever, the painting becomes very specific, which can be distracting. So for now, I\u2019ve gone back to doing younger women.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m always asked where the men are in my work, and why I only ever paint women.<\/strong>\u00a0Do people ask Peter Booth those types of questions? His male figures represent \u201chumanity\u201d. It is curious to me that my figures are not described in that way.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always struggled with feeling socially confined<\/strong>\u00a0but with my work it\u2019s a whole other front \u2013 I feel much more free and true to myself. Art is a place where I can really feel the expansiveness of life.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, yes, yes! Happy Monday.<\/p>\n

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Quiet moments, domestic scenes, muted palettes. Sigh. Lovely. These oil paintings are the work of Melbourne based painter Prudence Flint. Who are these people, and what are they thinking about? I couldn’t find her artist statement, but I did find a really great interview she did with the University of Melbourne, so I’ve pulled a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36148,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions\/36148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}